A little info regarding Virginia Governor's Races......

Burma Jones

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Wed Nov-04-09 08:51 AM
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A little info regarding Virginia Governor's Races......

1977 - Carter in office.....GOP Gov

1981 - St. Ronnie in office....Dem Gov

1985 - St. Ronnie in office....Dem Gov

1989 - Bush the First in office......Dem Gov

1993 - Clinton in office.....GOP Gov

1997 - Clinton in office.....GOP Gov

2001 - Bush II in office....Dem Gov

2005 - Bush II in office....Dem Gov

2009 - Obama in office.....Well, why screw up the pattern now?

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Nicholas D Wolfwood

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Wed Nov-04-09 08:54 AM
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1. I've been saying it for a long, long time now, but Deeds was an awful candidate.

I know people around here hate him, but we'd have been much better off with McAuliffe.

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Burma Jones

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Wed Nov-04-09 08:57 AM
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2. We do have a habit of nominating people who can DO the job a lot better than they can get the job

Deeds was an awful candidate, probably would have made a fine Governor........

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Cha

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Wed Nov-04-09 12:16 PM
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7. I just read that Deeds was not

for the PO or the Climate Change Bill.

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ProgressOnTheMove

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Wed Nov-04-09 09:05 AM
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3. Still it is a good warning signal to get out the vote for 2010, NJ could of been doable...

Edited on Wed Nov-04-09 09:10 AM by ProgressOnTheMove

Barney Frank "It's more than a little frustrating that Republicans are trying to benefit from their own incompetence."

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LiberalFighter

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Wed Nov-04-09 10:23 AM
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4. I don't think it is necessarily the fact that they were of the opposite party.

Who were the candidates in each election?

Was the Democratic candidate better than the Republican in every case?

What were the factors in each election?

What was the economy at the time?

I think Virginia voters have got to be more sophisticated than just voting for the candidate that is from the opposite party of the President.

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Burma Jones

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Wed Nov-04-09 11:34 AM
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6. My guess is that Virginia Gov races take place in odd number years, thus no Congressional seats up

for grabs and that might bring out the disaffected in greater numbers just to show their displeasure over the preceding years' Presidential Election.

Anyway, that's my guess.

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uponit7771

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Wed Nov-04-09 10:33 AM
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5. Deeds was going to "opt-out" of the PubOption if he was given a choice, no wonder he lost

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Cha

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Wed Nov-04-09 12:18 PM
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8. I read he wasn't for the Climate

Change Reform, either..so what kind of choice is that?

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